Despite varying assessments of the current state of U.S.-Russia relations, few would deny that they are now in a state of crisis, perhaps one of the worst in a long time. Not to say that ... ... a serious problem not only for the two countries in question, but also for the entire international system.
Is a New “Reset” Possible?
Working from Otto von Bismarck’s famous quote that “politics is the art of the possible” ...
... understand what they have achieved and missed out on, to inspect their progress and review errors.
Valery Garbuzov, deputy director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the RAS
, shares his view of the situation.
Does Barack Obama’s refusal to meet Vladimir Putin imply that this is the end of the “reset”?
There were difficulties in Russia-U.S. relations since long before the Edward Snowden incident. The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia, missile defense, Syria, strategic arms control, Iran, human rights in Russia, the Magnitsky Act and the adoption of Russian children by ...
One year after the utter failure of the U.S.-Russia “Reset,” the relationship between the two countries is gradually nearing its nadir. Beginning with Secretary of State Hillary ... ... McFaul’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, the climate in U.S.-Russia relations started to deteriorate leading to USAID’s closure, open confrontation on the Syrian issue, and exchange of the punitive “Magnitsky” and “Yakovlev” ...
In 2013 the state of, and prospects, for US-Russian cooperation in arms control and security look more dubious than at any point since the end of the Cold War a quarter century ... ... weapons and programs.
Washington claims that its superior BMD program and long range conventional weapons (in particular, thousands of sea-launched cruise missiles and PGS projects) are assigned missions against rogue states and terrorists. But Russia ...
... to draw its energy from more numerous and various sources. In the international arena, there are few overlapping or coinciding priorities in the two countries’ agendas, whereas the logic pointing to the competitive positioning of Russia and the USA seems stronger than any signs of an emerging joint strategy and tactics.
It is not surprising therefore that in Russia the very notion of the ‘reset’ – whatever the motives, substance and concrete results of this undertaking have been – is basically considered a thing of the past. And the United States is not expected to engage in a ‘reset’ as it did four years ...
The following is a transcript of an interview with Dmitry Peskov, deputy chief of staff and press secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin, conducted by Paul Saunders, associate publisher of The National Interest and executive director ... ... was conducted Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013.
Paul Saunders:
Thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. The "reset" in the U.S.-Russia relationship was one of the first foreign policy initiatives during President Obama’s first ...
MOSCOW. Jan 21 (Interfax) - Former Russian foreign minister and former secretary of the Russian Security Council and Russian International Affairs Council President Igor Ivanov said that the "reset" in Russian-American relations has exhausted itself and the two countries should move further.
"Getting back to 'reset,' I think it has fulfilled its mission and exhausted itself," Ivanov said in an interview with Interfax in connection ...
MOSCOW. Jan 21 (Interfax) - Former Russian foreign minister and former secretary of the Russian Security Council and Russian International Affairs Council President Igor Ivanov said that the "reset" in Russian-American relations has exhausted itself and the two countries should move further.
"Getting back to 'reset,' I think it has fulfilled its mission and exhausted itself," Ivanov said in an interview with Interfax in connection ...
... US-Russian relations are hard to fathom. Although tensions are running high, Washington and Moscow hope for the second round of "reset".
Barack Obama is back in the White House. A second term tends to be a time when heads of state think about the legacy ... ... more focused” when it comes to wielding America’s international influence inevitably meet with disagreement and accusations of weakness.
At the start of Barack Obama’s second term,
U.S.-Russian relation
s are hard to fathom.
Russia is not high on the country’s list of priorities
, but it is important to ...
Interview with Robert Donaldson, University of Tulsa
Interview
US-Russia relations are always at the center of attention among Russian and foreign analysts. That is why RIAC could not miss an ... ... University of Tulsa, a renowned expert in Russia and US external affairs. Prof. Donaldson was kind enough to speak about the "reset", issues of mutual distrust, US foreign policy shifts and the latest trends in the Asia Pacific.
According to a recent ...